Improvement in draft-eveners



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No. 165,395,4 Parenwdmlyanvs.

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INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMOS WHITTEMORE, OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAFT-EVENERS. 'i

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,395, dated July 6,1875; application led December 26, 1874.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos WHITTEMORE, of Gambridgeport, in the county ofMiddle` sex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Draft-Eveners and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and gures ofreference marked thereon. Y

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a plan View of mydraftevener. Fig. Z is a side view of the same, and Figs. 3 and aredetail views. Fig. 5 is a side view of a cart having my device attached.

This invention has relation to draft-eveners,

which are designed more especially for vehicles which are used .fordrawing very heavy loads; and the nature of my invention consists in anovel combination of draft-bars and ivhifletrees with thills andhitching-rings, hereinafter explained, whereby the draft-bars willaccommodate themselves to the shoulder movements of the animal inwalking. It also consists in providing means for bitching a leader-horseto the thills so that he will draw in a direct line with the axle, aswill be understood from the following description.

My objects are, mainly, to prevent the shoulders and breasts of horsesfrom being chafed, and also to prevent the leader horse from drawingdown upon the draft horse in the shafts. 4

In the annexed drawings, A A designate thills, which are secured to thebed of an axle, B, and C designates a cross-bar, to the upper and lowersides of which whiftletrees l) D are pivoted. To the ends of the twowhiffletrees draft-rods E E are pivoted, which extend along on the upperand lower sides of the thills, and are united by vertical portions a,which are received in slots made through the thills. The ends of thethills are provided with straps, which form loops, to which the leaderhorse places by means ot' removable pins c, which are passed throughholes made through the draft-rods in front of the bearings b. Thusapplied, the rings cannot bind on the thills, for the reason that whenthe draft is on them they are held hy the bearings b and pins c squarelyacross the thills.

For the purpose of preventing a leader horse from drawing down upon thehorse in4 the shafts, I attach the draft-chains of the leader horse tovertical portions g, which depend fromV the thills, and are held by rodsg', extending back and secured to the axle or axle-bed. By this meansthe draft of the leader horse can be brought in a direct line with theaxle, so that he will draw to the best advantage.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The draft-rods E E, above and below the thills, pivoted towhiftletrees D D, and connected together at their front ends, incombination with bearings b and pins c, substantially as and for thepurposes described.

2. The draft portions lg below the thills, in combination with thesustainingrod stantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

. AMOS WHITTEMORE. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. UPHAM, JOHN B, Genuss.

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